Of course, anything datamined off the PTR has to be taken as only slightly more reliable than a pencil sketch on the back of an envelope fished out of Ghostcrawler’s waste basket, but the idea of triple spec is still intriguing. Of course, it would make a much bigger difference to some classes than to others. Druids, paladins, and monks, for instance, have the choice of being tanks, dps, or healers. Rogues and hunters, on the other hand, are really only choosing between different methods of sticking pointy things into their enemies.

After the aoe-fest of late Wrath dungeons, stepping into Cataclysm dungeons was like being Wile E. Coyote riding an ACME rocket straight into a brick wall. It took some time and painful experience to get used to using our crowd control buttons. Now in Pandaria, those buttons are feeling pretty lonely again.

It was really hard to get people used to using crowd control in dungeons again when Cataclysm came out. Eventually most people got the idea. Then I would occasionally take my tank in a dungeon and find everything cc’d, and we would have to fight over whose cc would get broken first because we had to kill something.